Leave it to Andy Warhol to get another shot at fame from beyond the grave: today, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh announced that they've discovered a dozen previously unknown works by the late pop artist. And they weren't found where you'd expect — at a yard sale or in some random person's basement — but on aging floppy disks from 1985 that were commissioned by Commodore to demonstrate the capabilities of their Amiga 1000 computer.

The work would have remained unseen, too, if it hadn't been for a curious computer nerd who — after learning of Andy's Amiga experiments — asked the museum if they'd consider letting him restore the hardware to retrieve any files from the discs that had possibly gone unnoticed. So with their blessing and the help of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club, they initiated a process known as Forensic Retrocomputing to carefully extract whatever data they could.

In the end they discovered 28 never-before-seen digital images — including his signature subjects like the Campbell's soup can, Botticelli's Venus, and self-portraiture — judged to be in Warhol's style, though only a dozen actually feature his signature. Hats off to you, hackers.

Joe McGauley is a senior editor for Supercompressor and wonders how much his childhood MS Paint masterpieces would be worth today.